Energy Efficient Drive Systems: Benefits & Issues to Consider when Selecting Variable Speed Drives in the Water Industry

Originally Broadcast: July 17, 2008
Overview:
The use of variable speed drives, especially variable frequency drives, to power industrial and municipal pumps has been growing at a rate of 5 percent a year. Five percent of all motors are VFD controlled, 20% for higher power motors. This growth is driven by the fact that up to 18% of the energy used to drive motors could be saved by applying efficiency technologies, such as VFDs. ...

 

Technology Strategy for 21st Century Water Utilities

Originally Broadcast: June 24, 2008
Overview:
The need to both fix and expand water infrastructure has many utilities thinking about rate increases. But higher rates are not the only path to ensuring the uninterrupted water supplies that underpin our communities. Better use of computer applications and technology can also play an important role. This webex will focus on how water utilities can develop a cohesive business and ...

 

Optimizing Plant Performance Through Source Water Monitoring

Originally Broadcast: May 21, 2008
Overview:
The fences are up and the cameras are on, but the quality of our source water is still out of our control. This presentation will focus on the value of instrumentation to monitor the influent of the treatment plant and its source water. We will discuss specific influent and source water parameters and how large changes can affect processes throughout the plant and its final product ...

 

Process Peristaltic Pumps: Improving Chemical Feed Processes and Eliminating Down Time

Originally Broadcast: May 20, 2008
Overview:
Carrying out essential dosing, chemical delivery and product transfer operations in municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment applications poses ever-evolving challenges for facility managers. Influenced by infrastructure needs, increasing regulatory requirements, and fiscal pressures, many are finding they must now look for new, innovative ways to meet the demands for ...

 

Optimizing Biological Nutrient Removal Through Instrumentation

Originally Broadcast: April 8, 2008
Overview:
The leading proponents of Biological Nutrient Removal have indicated that instrumentation is critical to the operation and optimization of nutrient removal systems. But where to begin? What provides the best value? What will the information mean?

This webcast outlines two common nutrient removal processes, provides instrumentation recommendations at three different budget ...

 

Are you putting your employees at risk?
Learn how to comply with National Fire Protection Agency 70E Arc Flash Safety Standards.

Originally Broadcast: February 21, 2008
Overview:
The webinar will begin with a discussion of what is an Arc Flash, and why the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) deemed a standard necessary for the safety of personnel around electrical equipment. We will delve into what is required to comply with NFPA 70E standards, and how compliance improves the safety of facilities. The discussion of compliance will cover the arc flash protection ...

 

Hands-Off Sewer Flow Monitoring with DDS (Data Delivery Services) - It's Time to Think Outside the Manhole

Originally Broadcast: December 6, 2007
Overview:
This webcast will allow participants to discover how Data Delivery Services (DDS) provides a reliable sewer flow monitoring network that doesn't require manhole visits. Data Delivery Services (DDS) utilizes the award-winning Flo-Dar flow meter to provide users with a truly 'Hands-Off' approach to sewer flow monitoring - all from the comfort of their office. Current DDS customers are ...

 

City of Newport News: Achieving World-Class Customer Service

Originally Broadcast: December 5, 2007
Overview:
Water management companies of all sizes are continually seeking ways to increase efficiency by reducing and eliminating manual processes, standardizing procedures to ensure uniformity and compliance, and creating a single integrated platform to improve visibility across the company. In short, companies are looking for solutions that are not too big, are not too complex, are the right ...

 

Managing Change and Its Impact on Drinking Water Quality

Originally Broadcast: December 4, 2007
Overview:
Change impacts everyone and the drinking water industry is no different. Regulatory changes, global warming effects, aging workforce issues, cost restraints and increasing customer expectations all impact the changes that will be required to our treatment processes in order to meet these increased demands.

Every treatment system is unique. Strategies and test methods will ...

 

Is Your Service Quality At Risk?
Learn How To Maximize Your Operational Efficiency By Improving the Quality of Your Asset Data Throughout the Design, Build, Operate and Maintain Lifecycle

Originally Broadcast: November 6, 2007
Overview:
With Autodesk and Oracle solutions you can improve the accuracy and consistency of your asset data; share the data with multiple users and applications; and focus on data discovery, spatial querying/reporting, and thematic mapping.

If you want to understand how you can build intelligence into your design, remove the data silos, and create a centralized Oracle data environment ...

 

Membrane Systems for Wastewater Treatment -- Evolving Technologies, Regulatory Drivers

Originally Broadcast: October 2, 2007
Overview:
Membranes have been used in drinking water for many years and they increasingly are being employed in wastewater treatment as well. They can be a polishing unit for conventional treatment (tertiary filtration) or an integral part of wastewater treatment (membrane bioreactors). In tertiary treatment, membranes remove small particles and pathogens, achieve very low nutrients limits (phosphorus), ...

 

Process Control, the Key to Simultaneous Compliance

Originally Broadcast: August 15, 2007
Overview:
In the webcast you will learn about current EPA drinking water regulations and potential areas of conflict. Information will include:

• Treatment Modifications
• Avoiding Unintended Consequences
• What should systems aim for when making process changes for compliance?
• What should systems consider when making process changes?
• Data Collection

Aeration Control – "Better Economical Effluent"

Originally Broadcast: August 7, 2007
Overview:
Opportunity is often disguised as confusion. Every wastewater treatment system is searching for ways to reduce costs and create a cleaner effluent, known as a "better economical effluent", but finding the opportunity may not be clear. Many believe that the largest opportunities for cost savings hide in the aeration phase of secondary treatment.

For example, the Water Environment ...